WREXHAM player-manager Andy Morrell is seeking a more convincing performance at the Racecourse today against Hyde than was the case a fortnight ago in the season’s opener with Welling United.

The Dragons were second-best in the first 45 minutes of that match, only securing all three points in a 2-1 success thanks to a late winner from Rob Ogleby, and Morrell knows his players are capable of doing much better.

Since last on home soil Wrexham have taken just one point on the road, bouncing back from defeat at Halifax to earn a draw last Saturday with Tamworth, but the Racecourse boss has a stronger hand to play this afternoon ahead of a testing Bank Holiday trip to Lincoln City.

“Obviously we’ve got Steve Wright back from suspension, Neil Ashton back from illness and Joe Anyinsah’s international clearance has come through, so we are looking a little bit healthier,” he said yesterday.

“I’m really pleased to have a few selection problems, but we have got two games in three days and lads who are not playing tomorrow might be involved on Monday, so everyone has to be ready to play.”

Keen to take advantage of an improved Racecourse playing surface that should encourage his team to pass the ball around, the Dragons’ boss added: “Home form will be key for us to have any chance of doing well this season and we need to be strong and hard to beat at the Racecourse.

“We’ve had one win so far, even though we only played for half the game, so we need to be positive and look to get on the front foot from the start.

“A win tomorrow would set us up nicely for the game at Lincoln, who have started the season well. There is a good squad down there this time round after making a few changes and they gave us a good game towards the end of last season.

“They will be confident and I would have thought they will be up there challenging this season so we are under no illusions that it will be anything but a very tough place to go. On the other hand it’s an opportunity to go there and demonstrate we are again going to be a force to be reckoned with in this league.”

A fit-again Morrell, who has yet to figure after three games, and new boy Anyinsah, mean Wrexham have plenty of attacking options, with Andy Bishop shrugging off injury to compete with Rob Ogleby, Brett Ormerod, Nick Rushton, Bradley Reid and Adrian Cieslewicz for a starting place today.

“Andy Bishop has had a little knock on his ankle, but he wants to play so I have no qualms about that and he will be involved as well,” he said.

“We have some good options up top now with different types of player for different types of game. The first job is to pick a team that can win tomorrow and with the same aim in mind on Monday there might be a few changes.

“I want to keep as settled a team as possible because that would suggest we are going well. If people are playing well they stay in and from the players’ point of view they have to prove they are worth their place every time they go out on the pitch.

“If we are winning games and not conceding goals the team will pick itself and everyone will be happy, but it might not be quite as simple as that.

“Hyde will be a different proposition from the likes of Tamworth and Halifax. They get the ball down and play and they have some good footballers. They are not as big as Tamworth so they will offer us a different problem.

“But as I say about most games, it’s what we do that matters. If we are at it properly we have every chance of doing well.”